Achievement First: Expanding discrimination in New Haven - Wait, What?

Achievement First: Expanding discrimination in New Haven - Wait, What?:

Achievement First: Expanding discrimination in New Haven

by jonpelto

The ugly truth about Achievement First, charter schools and discrimination…

Yesterday’s Wait, What? blog highlighted the discrimination being perpetrated by Achievement First – Hartford.

Achievement First, Inc. is the large charter school management company that was co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education.  Today, Dacia Toll serves as the organization’s President and CEO.

As parents know, local public schools MUST provide services to any child who is a resident of that community.  They cannot discriminate.  (Town borders may create de